When it rains.... it pours... and then pours some more

The short version of our past week:

No hot water, daddy has a fever, pneumonia, hot water, no hot water, Hayden stays up 2 night in a row from 9pm-2am, still no hot water, big red swollen eye, 102.3 degree FEVER!!, Primary Children's Hospital, blood work, spinal tap, urine test, chest x ray, lots and lots of crying(more mommy then Hayden), long night and 2 days in the hospital, influenza A, finally home again, hot water, no hot water, mommy doesn't feel good, FINALLY permanent hot water, mommy has a fever, yucky cold.....

ya.... so needless to say this past week has been a blast.

Longer version:

So obviously, we have been having issues with the water heater. The pilot light kept going out. My uncle owns a plumbing shop so his guy came over and sucked out a bunch of lint 2 or 3 times and then had to replace some part in it. So in the end, we were without hot water for a good couple of days or it was off and then on again. I have never been so grateful for a nice hot bath in my life. Then Cory woke up last Saturday with a sneeze and a sniffle, and by 8pm that night he had a high fever! He had a fever all through the night and we couldn't break it, he goes to urgent care Sunday morning and gets the diagnoses of the beginning of pneumonia! Lovely, since we have a little baby at home. He stayed TOTALLY away from Hayden for 3 days; he wasn't ever even in the same room as him. After a shot, 3 different antibiotics and an inhaler, Cory is finally better with only a little cough… thank goodness.

About the time daddy got sick and was sleeping in the other room. Hayden was started to get super fussy and would stay up 5 or 6 hours in the middle of the night. I didn't think too much about it, I just assumed it was normal baby stuff and gas. On Tuesday at 3pm I noticed his eye getting weepy and the skin around it getting red and inflamed. I didn't feel very good about it, especially with Pneumonia in the house. I took him in to the doctor at 4:30pm and while we are there his skin coloring is getting worse and worse, the nurse takes his temperature and its 102.3!!! I start to lose it... He is lethargic and just not his normal self. I get it together somewhat and the doctor comes into look at him. He starts saying things like, "crackling in his lungs, dull redness in his ears and throat, way to high of a fever for a baby so young..." Ok...NOW I lose it. I start crying as he is telling me that I need to take him to the Primary Children's and they will do a bunch of tests to see what’s going on. I call Cory; I went to the doctor myself because he still wasn't feeling awesome. Him and my mom get there and drive me and Hayd down to Salt Lake. They get him checked in and say just to leave him in just his diaper and blanket because all the doctors will want to see him naked. It was so hard to just sit in the waiting room just waiting for an emergency room to open up, with my naked, feverish, baby. We got back to a room pretty fast, and my uncle met us there to help Cory give Hayden a blessing. I couldn't stay in there for a lot of the tests, it was so hard and sad to hear him cry and no he felt terrible and was in pain. After all Hayden's tests to see where the infection could be and if it was viral or bacterial. They got a room for us to stay overnight. His spinal tap and blood work for a bacterial infection came back negative. His chest x-ray did show some junk in his chest, but the RSV test came back negative. Finally after a night in the hospital, his Influenza test came back positive and we got to take him home that night around 7pm. He is finally doing better. When we took him in for a checkup the doctor said the junk in his chest is gone and things are looking better. He still is really stuffy, and we have to suck his poor little nose out a bunch, but he is getting back to be his normal self again. I’m so thankful for all the fabulous nurses and doctors that loved him and helped take care of him. They were so cute with him and kept saying how cute he is. And everyone was surprised that he is only a month old. I guess at 11 lbs already it would be hard to believe this cute little tank is only 4 weeks.

While being at the hospital I'm sure I picked up something yucky. I had a fever the night after we brought him home. So yay, fevers all around this week! I went to the doctor and got some medicine. It could be strep, we will see tomorrow, if not it’s just a yucky virus.

I’m so glad we are starting a new week. I thought last week would never end.

I am so grateful my mommy intuition kicked in and made me feel uneasy about his big red eye. I felt so bad that he was sick and had probably been getting sick for awhile and I had no idea. I just want to do my best to protect him from everything and for him to be happy and safe. I love him so much. I am so grateful for my husband that he was able to bless him with my uncle. I know that made all the difference. I’m so grateful for my family for all their prayers and phone calls and support. I have the best mom, she has helped so much those hard late nights and during the day when I just need a break to catch up on sleep or just to breathe for a bit. This week was hard but it’s made me so thankful, for the big things like our health and little things, like turning on the faucet and having hot water right there ready to go.

Pictures from the hospital......